The Category and number of comments of each post was not displaying. I spent all day yesterday trying to find out what was wrong with the database -- PPLOG has it's own flat-file plain-text database.

I got somewhat depressed as I couldn't fix it.

Then last night I installed a few other blogs and played with them for awhile.

Then this morning I took a fresh look at my PPLOG blog. It occurred to me that the problem might be with my host, hostgator.com, some subtle change in how Perl works.

That's what it turned out to be. I have just about zero knowledge of Perl, so it was a painful process, but I discovered a bug in some "print" statements. My guess is that Hostgator have updated Perl, which has a subtle change in syntax requirement. Hmmm, I would have expected this of Python, not Perl.

Yesterday, I clicked on an .mp3 audio file, and Pmusic failed to start, though it is set as the default music player.
This morning, I have investigated this further, clicking any audio file, Pmusic does not start.

Yet, run 'pmusic' without any file on the commandline, and it does start, and then any music file can be opened and played.

This is a serious bug. How come no one else has reported this in any of the alphas, betas and RCs?

If you are using Precise, do you get this bug?
But then, Pmusic was upgraded to 2.6.6 on 21st September, so maybe the bug came in then?

This does mean that I could move Python back to the devx for future releases of Precise Puppy.
I think that some PETs that 666philb has created recently assume the presence of Python, so that would need to be addressed.